Apr 21, 2021
Living By Faith, Part 11 “Doers of the Word, Part 2”
Series: Bible Study

James 2:14-26; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 4:1-5; Hebrews 11:4,5,7-9,11,17,23-27; Matthew 21:28-32
- If we have the faith that saves us, then that faith would be seen by our works.
- Simply saying be warm and be filled is not demonstrative of our faith.  Faith is demonstrated by action.
- If we are really saved, we will have some works,
- Good works reveal what is going on in our hearts.
- There is a difference in knowing God and obeying Him.
- Faith requires a corresponding action.
- We need to have acts of obedience to back up our belief- our faith.
- The good works that we do complete our faith.
- Faith alone saves, but faith that saves is never alone. -John Calvin
- There is always a doing behind the faith.
- We pray for relief by faith, when God answers, we must do something.
- God looks for us to do something behind the faith we profess.
- God cannot say well done, if we're not doing anything.

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  • Apr 21, 2021Living By Faith, Part 11 “Doers of the Word, Part 2”
    Apr 21, 2021
    Living By Faith, Part 11 “Doers of the Word, Part 2”
    Series: Bible Study

    James 2:14-26; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 4:1-5; Hebrews 11:4,5,7-9,11,17,23-27; Matthew 21:28-32
    - If we have the faith that saves us, then that faith would be seen by our works.
    - Simply saying be warm and be filled is not demonstrative of our faith.  Faith is demonstrated by action.
    - If we are really saved, we will have some works,
    - Good works reveal what is going on in our hearts.
    - There is a difference in knowing God and obeying Him.
    - Faith requires a corresponding action.
    - We need to have acts of obedience to back up our belief- our faith.
    - The good works that we do complete our faith.
    - Faith alone saves, but faith that saves is never alone. -John Calvin
    - There is always a doing behind the faith.
    - We pray for relief by faith, when God answers, we must do something.
    - God looks for us to do something behind the faith we profess.
    - God cannot say well done, if we're not doing anything.

  • Apr 18, 2021God in the Image of Man
    Apr 18, 2021
    God in the Image of Man
    Series: General
    Judges 18; 17; 1:21,27,29-34
    - God provided a promised land for every tribe except the Levite. God expected the people to take care of the Levite, represented of Him.
    - Because the people did not recognize God as king, they made one themselves.
    - If we don't remove the sinful things in our lives, we will not recognize God as king.
    - When you are not committed to God you will go to the highest bidder.
    - There are too many hirelings in the vineyard of God.
    - We can have the right family name, the right spiritual heritage, lineage, a historical relationship with God, but do you acknowledge God as king?
    - When we do what we want and think it is okay to do something, we are making God in our image.
    - When God is not on the center of our heart, we create our own idols.
    - When we don't recognize God as the true and living God, we search for what is beneficial for us, instead of what God has ordained.
    - When God is not your king, it becomes all about self.
    - When you don't recognize God as king, your worship is counterfeit, you look for the easy way out.
    - Too many of us walking around like God didn't make commandments, He makes suggestions.
    - Can't be true worship if the God we worship is made in our own image (or somebody else's).
    - If you can pick your God up and move Him around, your God has no power.
    - We want to avoid, runaway from, any God made in the image of man.
  • Apr 14, 2021Living By Faith, Part 10 “Doers of the Word”
    Apr 14, 2021
    Living By Faith, Part 10 “Doers of the Word”
    Series: Bible Study

    James 1:19-25; Proverbs 4:7; John 8:31; Hebrews 2:1; Luke 11:27-28; Matthew 7:21-26
    - God saved us by His Word, so we should be quick to hear His Word.
    - Our wrath will take us out of our right standing with God.
    - Meekness, strength under control.
    - The Word of God is a treasure that we need to receive with a gentle and humble spirit.
    - Engrafted Word is a Word that is planted in our hearts.
    - If we do not receive the engrafted Word of God the devil can come and steal it.
    - A hearer only is forgetful of the Word heard.
    The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1-9,18-23; Mark 4:1-9,13-20; Luke 8:4-8,11-15)
    Acts 8:26-40, Philip and the Eunuch
    - The care of things can choke out the Word.
    - Being productive is more than being active.
    - A doer of the Word keeps the Word.
    - One of the biggest differences between a doer and a hearer is doers are committed to the Word.
    - In consistency, lies the power.
    - True disciples show themselves in doing.
    - The one who is blessed hears the Word and puts it into practice.
    - Hearer only deceives themselves, is forgetful and is foolish.
    - The hearer only crashes, the doer of the Word stands.

     

  • Apr 7, 2021After the Resurrection
    Apr 7, 2021
    After the Resurrection
    Series: Bible Study

    John 20:11-29, 21:1-14 ; Mark 15:43; Isaiah 51:12; Luke 24:13-32
    - No improvisation with angels, say what the Lord says.
    - We need to crave Jesus, remember Joseph of Arimathea.
    - One of the first things Jesus did after the resurrection was comfort someone when they were sad.
    - Jesus knows everything, but He still asks questions.
    - After speaking to sorrow, Jesus then spoke to confusion.
    - Jesus speaks peace to those who are fearful.
    - Jesus came back 8 days later just for Thomas. God gives us special attention.
    - We have a God who is interested in giving us a new beginning.
    - Sometimes we're on the wrong side of things; we just need to change sides.
    - Jesus satisfied their need. They went from nothing to more than enough.
    - We have a God whose kind.

  • Apr 4, 2021He Kept His Word
    Apr 4, 2021
    He Kept His Word
    Series: General
    Matthew 28:1-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
    - Three times Jesus spoke of His death and that He will rise again.
    - Jesus reveals things in greater detail the more we walk with Him.
    - The stone was rolled away not so Jesus can get out, but so that people can get in and bear witness that He had risen.
    - Our testimony is different from that of the world's.
    - The empty tomb gives us hope.
    - When Jesus got up from the grave it was a game changer.
    - Because Jesus kept His Word about the resurrection we can have confidence in everything else He said.
    - The empty tomb gives us hope that this life is not all that is.
  • Mar 31, 2021Maundy Thursday
    Mar 31, 2021
    Maundy Thursday
    Series: Bible Study

    Luke 22:14-20, 39-43; John 13:1-15,31-35

    - Jesus instituted Communion on Thursday.

    - Communion can be taken at any time.

    - Relationships are not about rules. Religion is about rules.

    - Jesus gets upset when we make it harder to worship.

    - We have to get comfortable with not knowing. God will reveal what we don't know hereafter.

    - We have to avoid doing things just because of a ritual.

    - We may be in authority over others, but God expects us to have a heart of servant leadership.

    - God commands us to love one another as Jesus loved us.

    - Communion, Servant Leadership, Love, Humility is what Jesus taught on Maundy Thursday.

    - Humility is choosing God's will over our own,

    - When we walk in humility, heaven shows up.

  • Mar 28, 2021Jesus, the King of Glory
    Mar 28, 2021
    Jesus, the King of Glory
    Series: General

    Psalm 24:7-10; Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-111; Luke 19:28-44; John 12: 12-19; Isaiah 62:11, Zechariah 9:4; Psalm 118:25-26; 2 Samuel 7; Habakkuk 2:10-11; Luke 19:41-44

     

    - The people had a deep desire for God to be with them.

    - Jesus needed the obscure donkey.  No matter how obscure we may seem to be, Jesus needs us!

    - What the people were doing and how they received Jesus was based on Scripture.

    - Those that knew the Word knew Jesus would come on a donkey.

    - I don't need no rocks crying out for me, I will do it myself.

    - There is no escaping from God.

    - Jesus wept over the city because He knew that they would regret Him and they would be judged.

    - The people did not recognize when God visited them, and that led to their demise.

    - These questions are echoing through the heavens.  We need to have an answer.

    1. Who is this King of Glory?
    2. Why do you desire to see Jesus in your life? Curious, miracle worker, to do for you?
    3. For what reason do you want Jesus?
    4. Who do you say that Jesus is?

    - The King of Glory will come in but the doors have to be opened.

  • Mar 24, 2021Overcoming Setbacks
    Mar 24, 2021
    Overcoming Setbacks
    Series: Bible Study

    Romans 8:35-37; Psalm 32:2, 51:6, 37:23-24, 145:14:41:10;  Galatians 1:10; Proverbs 16:18, 19:2; John 11:1-4,39-40,43; Micah 7:8

     

    - If we love ourselves, we ought to be ourselves.

    - One of the things we can do to avoid falling is being ourselves.

    - When we try to be someone that we're not, we're operating in a spirit of deceit.

    - We need to be true to who we are.

    - We can please God by being who He made us to be.

    - We can fall when we think we know more than God, by doing what we want, instead of what God tells us to do.

    - When we fall, we have to realize there is a reason we fell in the first place.

    - When we fall, we need to consider where we are before we try to get up.

    - Glory takes time.

    - There's no success without a failure.

    - We don't need a lot of people; all we need is one.

    - God will pick us up when we fall.

    - We fall down, but we get up.

     

    1. Be Yourself.
    2. When you fall take your time getting up.
    3. If you fall, realize that you will rise again.
  • Mar 21, 2021For Now I Know
    Mar 21, 2021
    For Now I Know
    Series: General

    John 3:16; Romans 8:32; Genesis 22:1-18; 21:12

    - Love is an action that flows from a decision. God made a decision to create us,

    - Because God is great, His actions are not fully appreciated.

    - The best obedience is immediate.  Delayed obedience turns into disobedience.

    - Commitment is shown over time.

    - When we have the opportunity to back out and we don't, our commitment is revealed.

    - In the midst of our circumstance, purpose to continue to speak words of faith.

    - Even though the situation looks contrary, we have to remember what God told us.

    - We need to know God will provide Himself.

    - Just because God told us something, we have to keep listening.

    - Sometimes we don't know something, until someone shows you with their actions.

    - For now I know that God loves me because He gave His son.

  • Mar 17, 2021Living By Faith, Part 8 “Building Up Our Hope,” Part 2
    Mar 17, 2021
    Living By Faith, Part 8 “Building Up Our Hope,” Part 2
    Series: Bible Study

    1 Samuel 30:1-6, 7-16, 17-19; Habakkuk 3:17-19; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Psalm 16:8-9; Romans 15:4; Colossians 1:27; Exodus 33:17-19

     

    - If there is nothing to hope for, then faith has nothing to do.

    - It's a blessing to have people in your life to encourage you. But it's even better when you can encourage yourself.

    - Every time we share the Word, it presents an opportunity to empower.

    - We have to know that there is a way out of our situation.

    - We need to push past our pain and turn to God for encouragement

    - God is orchestrating right now to make sure we have what we need.

    -  David encouraged himself by seeking out God.

    - Even in our strength, we need to have humility.

    - The idea of encouraging yourself is in the face of adversity.

    - Affliction can either destroy us or be our growth agent.

    - When we have that confident expectation in the midst of the fire, God will show up.

    - It's better to forgo the pity party and get into the presence of God.

    - Stay in the Word. It will give us hope and comfort.

    - Christ in you, the hope of glory.

    - Christ is the confident expectation of the revealed goodness of God, which is why we can encourage ourselves.